Networks of Rhetorical Action and Resistance: Fela and Chaim Perelman’s Social Sphere
This monograph argues that Chaim Perelman, his wife Fela, and their network of Belgian Resistance leaders enacted the model of rhetorical action later developed in the The New Rhetoric Project. It grew out of my interest in Chaim Perelman’s remarkable life as a Zionist, rhetorical theorist, and humanitarian who saved many Belgian Jews during the Holocaust. This project is in development; I spent two summers (2009, 2010) researching archival materials related to the Perelman. Parts of this research, “Perelman, Judaism, and Zionism,” were presented at a dedicated Perelman Supersession at the 2010 RSA meeting.